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Page 27
... Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound . Vain shadow , which dost ...
... Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound . Vain shadow , which dost ...
Page 86
... Hope . Charity . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , mрodoyila , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it ...
... Hope . Charity . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses , mрodoyila , recounting how he assumed his true body ; that it corrupts not , because it ...
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... hope , our grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- ield , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription , and which I hope now rescued from dilapidation . He left ...
... hope , our grace will . ' He died October 21 , 1687 , and was buried at Beacons- ield , with a monument erected by his son's executors , for which Rymer wrote the inscription , and which I hope now rescued from dilapidation . He left ...
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